Improved cornice for window-curtains



cited 5t www OHARLEs WASHINGTON HILL, OF'NEW YORK, N. Y.

Lette/rs Patent No. 91,746, dated June 22, 1869.

IMPROVE!) `(JOIETLNICIl-L FOR WINDOW-CURTAINS.

The Schedule referred kto in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Toy all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES WASHINGTON HILL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cornices; and I do hereby declare the followingr to be a full, clear, and eitact description thereof, which will enable those skilledA in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which the figure represents a perspective front view of my invention.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in a cornice composed of a series of supporting strips, and made to present the profile of the cornice desired, in combination with a covering of veneers, pasteboa-rd, ASheetnietal, or any other exibl'e material, plain or ornamented, inV such a manner, that when the covering is attachedto said proile-i'rame, it is compelled to assume the required shape, and a cornice of a highly-ornamental character can be produced with little trouble or expense.

In the drawing- The let-ter A designates a franeWbich maybe made vof a. supporting-strip, a, from `which extends a series of' ribs, or arms b, as shown. The ribs, or arms are lso adjusted, in relation to each other, that they produce a frame of therequired profile.

To this profile-frame, I attach a covering, b', of veneers, pasteboard, sheet-metal, or other material of sucient flexibility and stiffness. By 4doing so, the covering has to accommodate itself to the shape of the profile-frame, and a cornice of a highly-ornamental'charaeter can be produced at a comparatively tri- Witnesses z F. M. HILL, PETER PJPolfE. 

